[ ghc-Bugs-1197552 ] Adjustor creation not supported on x86_64

2005-05-09 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #1197552, was opened at 2005-05-08 07:16 Message generated for change (Settings changed) made by simonmar You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=108032aid=1197552group_id=8032 Category: Runtime System Group: 6.4 Status: Closed Resolution: Fixed

[ ghc-Bugs-1097471 ] amd64: adjustor creation not supported

2005-05-09 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #1097471, was opened at 2005-01-06 20:55 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by simonmar You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=108032aid=1097471group_id=8032 Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5

problem with xlib binding

2005-05-09 Thread Frederik Eaton
Hi, Hmm, have the new xlib bindings been tested? For instance, when I run the following program: module Main where import Graphics.X11.Xlib import Graphics.X11.Xlib.Display main :: IO () main = do display - openDisplay

[ ghc-Bugs-1198393 ] Program aborts with segmentation fault when profiling used.

2005-05-09 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #1198393, was opened at 2005-05-09 09:21 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=108032aid=1198393group_id=8032 Category: Profiling Group: None Status: Open Resolution:

[ ghc-Bugs-1198393 ] Program aborts with segmentation fault when profiling used.

2005-05-09 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #1198393, was opened at 2005-05-09 09:21 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by nobody You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=108032aid=1198393group_id=8032 Category: Profiling Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5

[ ghc-Bugs-1198393 ] Program aborts with segmentation fault when profiling used

2005-05-09 Thread Christian Maeder
Hi, I also have (a rather large) program (not included) that segfaults when compiled with profiling. I use the ghc-6.4 linux binary distribution from the web. It is not even necessary to call the program with +RTS -p -RTS. There is no problem with ghc-6.2.2, except that the old version uses its

[ ghc-Bugs-1097471 ] amd64: adjustor creation not supported

2005-05-09 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #1097471, was opened at 2005-01-07 05:55 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by juhp You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=108032aid=1097471group_id=8032 Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted

[ ghc-Bugs-1198673 ] can't build jhc with package depending on lang installed

2005-05-09 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #1198673, was opened at 2005-05-10 09:28 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by juhp You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=108032aid=1198673group_id=8032 Category: libraries (other) Group: 6.4 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority:

[ ghc-Bugs-1198673 ] can't build ghc with package depending on lang installed

2005-05-09 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #1198673, was opened at 2005-05-10 09:28 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by juhp You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=108032aid=1198673group_id=8032 Category: Compiler Group: 6.4 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5

[ ghc-Bugs-1198765 ] make depend of ghc-6.5 segfaults on x86-64

2005-05-09 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #1198765, was opened at 2005-05-10 13:28 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=108032aid=1198765group_id=8032 Category: Compiler Group: None Status: Open Resolution:

[ ghc-Feature Requests-1097471 ] amd64: adjustor creation not supported

2005-05-09 Thread SourceForge.net
Feature Requests item #1097471, was opened at 2005-01-07 05:55 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by juhp You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=358032aid=1097471group_id=8032 Category: None Group: None Status: Closed Priority: 3 Submitted

[ ghc-Feature Requests-1084122 ] RPM doesn't support --prefix

2005-05-09 Thread SourceForge.net
Feature Requests item #1084122, was opened at 2004-12-13 10:54 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by juhp You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=358032aid=1084122group_id=8032 Category: None Group: None Status: Open Priority: 5 Submitted By:

Re: Can't compile GHC

2005-05-09 Thread Jerzy Karczmarczuk
robert dockins addresses this to - Daniel Carrera wrote: Hello, I've been trying to learn Haskell. ... At this point I decide that I'll teach people Python instead of Haskell. I don't particularly like Python, but hey, it works. Your choice, of course. I'll say more. You may buy to your kids

Re: Can't compile GHC

2005-05-09 Thread Daniel Carrera
Andrew Cheadle wrote: :-p ok,ok, lots of people (but will they really continue to - we dropped it from our labs long ago). Having said that, how many people don't have access to a Windoze or Linux I don't have access to Win or Linux. But that's besides the point. I think it's reasonable to expect

Re: Can't compile GHC

2005-05-09 Thread Andrew Cheadle
Well Robert Dockins gave you an excellent explanation. You're just unlucky at the moment with 6.4. 6.2.2 is excellent - for various reasons I've had to stick with it for completion of some of my research. Having the compiler able to compile itself, yes. Making that the only way to compile it,

Re: Can't compile GHC

2005-05-09 Thread Daniel Carrera
robert dockins wrote: Perhaps. Nonetheless it is common practice for compilers to be written in the target language and to be compiled via bootstrapping. Ever take a look at the GCC sources? You guessed it: C. Please don't confuse the compiler being written in the target language with the

Re: Can't compile GHC

2005-05-09 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 09:54 -0400, Daniel Carrera wrote: Hello, I've been trying to learn Haskell. Some software isn't user friendly. But I think that a compiler requiring itself to compile is actively user hostile. I've spent over a week trying to get GHC to work on my Solaris

Re: Can't compile GHC

2005-05-09 Thread Daniel Carrera
Duncan Coutts wrote: This route is going to be your best bet. Find any binary version of ghc that works on your Solaris and then from there you've broken the GHC-GHC dep cycle. Okay. Is there a version that's more likely to work than others? Or should I try them sequentially from most recent,

Re: Porting the GHC to GNU/Hurd

2005-05-09 Thread Thomas Schwinge
On 10 April 2005 14:20, I wrote: Is someone aware of any efforts to port the GHC to GNU/Hurd? If not, I'd like to give that a try. I succeeded. :-) I did the bootstrap using a ghc-6-4-branch checkout, dated 20050422T204743Z. On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 10:44:18AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:

Re: Can't compile GHC

2005-05-09 Thread Bennett Todd
2005-05-09T16:09:16 Daniel Carrera: I think it should be if you want Haskell to grow in acceptance. The first barrier that new potential users hit is the one that causes most people to give up and move on to a different project. That first barrier should be made as low as possible. This is a

Re: Can't compile GHC

2005-05-09 Thread Mark Brooks
I think it should be if you want Haskell to grow in acceptance. The first barrier that new potential users hit is the one that causes most people to give up and move on to a different project. That first barrier should be made as low as possible. Without commenting on any of the other points

Re: Can't compile GHC

2005-05-09 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 21:26 -0400, Mark Brooks wrote: I say this because I have been evaluating Haskell for use in my senior project. I need a stable and usable graphics toolkit for the project. While graphics toolkits for Haskell do exist, they are oftentimes either translations of other

Re: Can't compile GHC

2005-05-09 Thread Jan-Willem Maessen
On May 9, 2005, at 4:55 PM, Bennett Todd wrote: 2005-05-09T16:09:16 Daniel Carrera: I think it should be if you want Haskell to grow in acceptance. The first barrier that new potential users hit is the one that causes most people to give up and move on to a different project. That first barrier

GHC as library

2005-05-09 Thread Robert Dockins
I seem to recall some time ago the Simons asked on one of these lists about uses people might have for GHC-as-library. It sounded really neat to me, and I just kind of wonder if there is any motion on that front. I'm thinking about hacking up a system to extract proof obligations into Coq

[Haskell] RE: Should inet_ntoa Be Pure?

2005-05-09 Thread Simon Marlow
On 07 May 2005 11:59, Dominic Steinitz wrote: Does anyone know why these are in the IO monad? Aren't they pure functions converting between dotted-decimal strings and a 32-bit network byte ordered binary value? Dominic.

RE: [Haskell] Proposal: Relative Module Imports

2005-05-09 Thread Simon Marlow
On 06 May 2005 18:33, Samuel Bronson wrote: On 5/6/05, Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (d) I hoped that something like grafting would provide a more general solution. Grafting sounds like a very nice solution just from the name, but I don't recall hearing of it before. Where

Re: [Haskell] Proposal: Relative Module Imports

2005-05-09 Thread Samuel Bronson
On 5/9/05, Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06 May 2005 18:33, Samuel Bronson wrote: On 5/6/05, Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (d) I hoped that something like grafting would provide a more general solution. Grafting sounds like a very nice solution just from the

Re: [Haskell] RE: Should inet_ntoa Be Pure?

2005-05-09 Thread Samuel Bronson
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/network/Network.So cket.html#v%3Ainet_addr http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/network/Network.So cket.html#v%3Ainet_ntoa What is with this wrapping? Sorry to cross-post this, but I couldn't figure out what to cut

[Haskell] Re: Should inet_ntoa Be Pure?

2005-05-09 Thread Peter Simons
Dominic Steinitz writes: inet_addr' :: (Octet,Octet,Octet,Octet) - HostAddress inet_ntoa' :: HostAddress - (Octet,Octet,Octet,Octet) I see Peter Simons has already written something: http://cryp.to/hsdns/docs/Network.IP.Address.html#v%3Aha2tpl As usual, I didn't write as much as I

[Haskell] Existing Haskell IPv6 Code was Re: Should inet_ntoa Be Pure?

2005-05-09 Thread Shae Matijs Erisson
Peter Simons [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Considering that as of today _none_ of these variations has the slightest idea what IPv6 is, it might be worth trying to unify that. Einar Karttunen's network-alt supports IPv6, datagram, and more: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/ekarttun/network-alt/ -- It

Re: [Haskell] Cabal problems

2005-05-09 Thread Isaac Jones
Sorry it took me so long to get back to you. I don't follow this mailing list as closely as I follow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cabal bugs should be reported there or CC'd to me... Peter Simons [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I've run into a problem when trying to build a package with Cabal using a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Squashing space leaks

2005-05-09 Thread Jerzy Karczmarczuk
Daniel Fischer wrote: If the algorithm - including dt - is prescribed, fine, but I wonder what sort of deviation physicists would consider acceptable. For dt = 0.01, k = 2000 we have a relative error of about 2*10^(-5), is that within accepted bounds or not? (Any physicists hang about here?)

[Haskell-cafe] Haskell for non-mathematicians (was: Specify array or list size?)

2005-05-09 Thread Graham Klyne
At 13:08 07/05/05 -0400, David Roundy wrote: On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 12:40:55PM -0400, Daniel Carrera wrote: In your opinion, do you think Haskell is appropriate for someone with zero math background? I can't imagine how I'd explain something like currying to someone who doesn't know math. I'd

Re: [Haskell-cafe] NumberTheory library

2005-05-09 Thread Jan-Willem Maessen
On May 9, 2005, at 8:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day all. Quoting Bo Herlin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Great, why not put these together in a first attempt of making a standard library? As promised, here's the first attempt: darcs get http://andrew.bromage.org/darcs/numbertheory/ How about

Re: [Haskell-cafe] NumberTheory library

2005-05-09 Thread ajb
G'day all. Quoting Jan-Willem Maessen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How about one that's actually H98? The types here aren't *that* fiddly... :-) Well, part of what I was doing was experimenting with what a library like this should look like, even more than what it should do. For some reason, I kind